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| Title | : | Coolie |
| Author | : | Mulk Raj Anand |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 282 pages |
| Published | : | June 24th 1993 by Penguin Classics (first published 1936) |
| Categories | : | Cultural. India. Fiction. Classics. Historical. Historical Fiction. Asian Literature. Indian Literature |
Mulk Raj Anand
Paperback | Pages: 282 pages Rating: 3.78 | 673 Users | 67 Reviews
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Coolie portrays the picaresque adventures of Munoo, a young boy forced to leave his hill village to fend for himself and discover the world. His journey takes him far from home to towns and cities, to Bomboy and Simla, sweating as servant, factory-worker and rickshaw driver. It is a fight for survival that illuminates, with raw immediacy, the grim fate of the masses in pre-Partition India. Together with Untouchable, Coolie places Mulk Raj Anand among the twentieth century's finest Indian novelists writing in English.
List Books As Coolie
| Original Title: | Coolie (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) |
| ISBN: | 0140186808 (ISBN13: 9780140186802) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 3.78 From 673 Users | 67 ReviewsEvaluate Out Of Books Coolie
For book lovers from India, there are some few writers who are must read for them considering the kind of role the writers have played in Indian writing over the decades and also considering the quality of their writings. Rabindranath Tagore, R.K. Narayan, Kamala Markandeya are a few of the names that comes to my mind. Add to that the name of Mulk Raj Anand, one of the finest writers of India. His book "Coolie" is a seminal book in Indian literature. Coolie depicts the life of an young boy whoAnand hung out with the cool kids of Bloomsbury for some years before snubbing that scene. Interestingly, he consciously imitated Joyce's Portrait and envisioned himself as a Stephen/Joyce figure forging the consciousness of India in the smithy of his soul. Untouchable and Coolie are terrific reads and offer very interesting commentary on Indian gender/caste constructions.
History Fiction has always been a love for me. Reading about the lives of people at the time of Independence and somehow connecting it with the stories of our parents and grandparents is one of my favorite things to do. Author has however done justice on his work of displaying Munoo's life as a young "fifth pass" boy who aspired to become like one of the "babus" or "sahibs" who wore English suits and had a luxurious life. In his journey from hills to Bombay and then to Simla, Munoo experienced
Coolie would be an obvious choice for readers who wish to understand how life in pre-independent India was for people who occupied the bottom most rung of the society.This is the second Mulk Raj Anand novel I read, the first being Untouchable.It tells the story of a 14year old village boy Munoo and the plight he suffers at the hands of the dignified members of the society who make up the upper crust. Munoo is orphaned after the death of his mother and is brought up by his uncle. No sooner than
As you probably know, Anand was an Indian who lived for roughly the entire 20th century and gained an international reputation for his bleakly realist social commentary novels written in English. This is his second of five novels. Although his usual biography states that he was moved to write by the inequities of the Indian caste system (his first novel was called Untouchable), it strikes me that his communist engagement in the 30s and 40s causes him at times to more broadly characterize the
creates a memorable character Munoo, through him we look into the plight of the poor in the British times. The novel also gives a glimpse into the lives of the Britishers, different from the stereotypical images we have been receiving through Bollywood movies all the time.
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